SharePoint/Office 365 Dev Patterns and Practices December 2016 release is out with new contributions from community for the community. Read this post to overview all the details related to what was included with the release and what else has been happening in the PnP during the past month.

Product lead, Catherine Pidgeon, demonstrates MyAnalytics in Office 365 and how you can use it to assess your time at work, including who you’re spending your time with, how you are using your time in meetings, your overall email habits and the impact of your communications with others.

This PnP Webcast by Waldek Mastykarz and Vesa Juvonen covers considerations around multi-view web parts, where the presentation layer is changed based on the status of the web part, and includes a demo with a sample web part built with React in practice.

The new SharePoint Framework has a safety net when you develop and style your components. Whenever you write a new style sheet class this will be picked up by a SASS preprocessor that first compiles the SASS file and then applies a special random string to the class name. Read article for more information.

There are some updates on what has changed with SharePoint Server 2016 BI. Updates include architecture changes to the SharePoint-based on-premises Microsoft BI Stack and how you can benefit from upgrading your BI farms to SharePoint Server 2016, SQL 2016 and Office Online Server with Excel Online.

Microsoft team is announcing several updates to the Office apps to help you easily and effectively collaborate with others.This includes real – time co – authoring in PowerPoint, the ability to upload attachments to the cloud directly from Outlook and other collaboration capabilities.

In this PnP Webcast, you will look at the client-side web part to build a real time notification model with SharePoint Framework using React.js, Office UI Fabric React components, Azure Logic Apps, Azure Storage Queue, and node.js.

Office 365 Accessibility Product Manager, Malavika Rewari, walks through specific tips and updates that help you to author accessible content with Office 365 and ensure your peers with disabilities can consume your content without any issues.

Modern pages are starting to become prevalent (and the default), and users are using them – so if you’re customizing SharePoint or adding new functionality based on web parts, you might run into problems soon if your web part will not work here. Read article for more details.

The DIWUG SharePoint eMagazine is a free downloadable magazine with articles written by MCMs, MVPs and other authors from the SharePoint community. The target audiences are IT-pros, developers and end (power) users.

This blog post by Waldek Mastykarz where he shares his slides from the recent Unity Connect 2016. Take a look if you are interested in presentation about building productivity solutions using the Microsoft Graph.

SPCSR is a Community driven SharePoint client script library. It contains all of the available Display Template samples provided by the SharePoint community members and javascript libraries that can be used in Display Templates and other CSR scripts.